DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API pricing
Token prices on OpenRouter and at the provider’s list price, and what your own workload would cost per month.
- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $1.20
- Cached input
- $0.006
OpenRouter, per 1M tokens. A dash means no listed price.
Your monthly cost
- Input not in cache
- $27.00
- Output
- $21.60
- Total per month
- $48.60
- Per day
- $1.62
- Per request
- $0.0016
The share you mark as “from cache” is billed at this model’s published cache-read price. Cache-write charges are not included. Compare this bill with other models.
Every price, with its source
OpenRouter price, per 1M tokens
- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $1.20
- Cached input (read)98% below the input price
- $0.006
- Batch (input / output)
- $0.112 / $0.336
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Maximum output
- 943,718 tokens
- Accepts
- text, image
- Reasoning mode
- yes
- Intelligence Indexby Artificial Analysis, relayed by OpenRouter
- 39.5
- Listed since
- 10 Sep 2026
No provider list price is recorded for this model: the figures above are what OpenRouter charges, which can differ from buying directly.
Collected from the OpenRouter models API (466 entries). 99 models are cross-checked against provider list prices in the LiteLLM price table.
About DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on...
Description supplied by OpenRouter. Model id for the API: deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
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Questions and answers
How much does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost per million tokens?
At the collection of 3 Oct 2026, 08:40 UTC, OpenRouter listed DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens.
What would DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost per month?
For 1,000 requests a day with 3,000 input and 600 output tokens each, over a 30-day month and with no caching, the bill is $48.60. Change the numbers in the simulator on this page to match your own traffic.
Does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash have a cheaper price for cached input?
Yes. Cached input is listed at $0.006 per million tokens, 98% below the normal input price.
What is the context window of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash?
1,048,576 tokens, with a maximum output of 943,718 tokens, as reported by OpenRouter.
Is there a batch price for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash?
Yes. OpenRouter lists a batch variant at $0.112 per million input tokens and $0.336 per million output tokens, for requests that can wait for an asynchronous answer.
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